# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:22:17.395Z

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name: "Antonie van Leeuwenhoek"
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description: "A Dutch draper who ground his own lenses and turned them on a drop of pond water — then wrote frantic letters to London describing the teeming \"animalcules\" no one had seen before. He opened a world smaller than anyone knew existed."
tagline: "Dutch scientist known as \"the Father of Microbiology\", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)"
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birthDate: "1632-10-24"
deathDate: "1723-08-26"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was raised in Delft and worked as a draper, opening his own shop in 1654. He took up lensmaking as a side interest, and in the 1670s began peering through single-lens microscopes of his own design at anything he could scrape or scoop. What he saw — microbes he called "dierkens," bacteria, spermatozoa, red blood cells, muscle fibers, blood moving through capillaries — had never been documented. He was the first to observe and experiment with these organisms, the first to gauge their size. Van Leeuwenhoek never wrote a book; instead he sent chaotic, detailed letters to the Royal Society, which published them in Philosophical Transactions. By the time he died in 1723, the self-taught shopkeeper had cracked open microbiology as a discipline.